Keywords: Currency
Item 104267
Three-dollar bank note, Lincoln County, ca. 1802
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1802 Location: Wiscasset Media: Ink on paper
Item 84679
Union Civil War money, ca. 1863
Contributed by: Maine Historical Society Date: circa 1863 Media: Copper, metal
Exhibit
Capt. Grenville F. Sparrow, 17th Maine
Grenville F. Sparrow of Portland was 25 when he answered Lincoln's call for more troops to fight the Confederates. He enlisted in Co. A of Maine's 17th Volunteer Infantry regiment. He fought in 30 battles between 1862 and the war's end in 1865.
Exhibit
Silk Manufacturing in Westbrook
Cultivation of silkworms and manufacture of silk thread was touted as a new agricultural boon for Maine in the early 19th century. However, only small-scale silk production followed. In 1874, the Haskell Silk Co. of Westbrook changed that, importing raw silk, and producing silk machine twist threat, then fabrics, until its demise in 1930.
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Historic Hallowell - Wood Ashes or Gold Dust?
"Hard currency was scarce. There was, however, one commodity available to the settlers, that required only hard work, fire that trees that had ten…"
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Life on a Tidal River - Three Civil War Letters - Page 3 of 4
"… banks, like the Veazie bank, was used until currency was standardized by the U.S. in _____Bangor Historical Society I am much obliged to the one…"
Story
Reverend Thomas Smith of First Parish Portland
by Kristina Minister, Ph.D.
Pastor, Physician, Real Estate Speculator, and Agent for Wabanaki Genocide
